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Sometimes going home is the most dangerous thing you can do.
Junkie burnout Troy Ingram murders an elderly couple outside small-town Morrison, Illinois. He's supposed to make it look like a robbery, but there's so much blood he panics and flees. When he's caught by police, he falls back on Plan B: tell everyone who will listen his motive was revenge on the Durrell family.
See, twenty years ago, Kelly Durrell broke his heart and ruined his life.
When Kelly returns to Morrison for the funerals, leaving her life in Boulder still packed in boxes and her relationship with detective Cash Peterson in its infancy, local gossip is quick to reach her. Troy's story doesn't make sense, but everyone in town seems happy to blame Kelly.
She can't even turn to her family for consolation: she and her mother get in an argument every time they talk, her dad doesn't want to make waves, and her cousins are too busy fighting over their inheritance to care about anything else.
But Troy's lawyer, Lizzy D'Angelo, is sure someone forced Troy to commit the murders, and that Kelly is the key to finding out who. With Lizzy's help, Kelly starts digging. Soon she discovers just how many secrets a small town can hide.
Can Kelly shine a light in her hometown's dark corners without getting herself and her family killed?
Hometown Boys is a smart, tension-filled thriller that will keep you riveted until the surprising, satisfying end.
Titles in the series (2)
- Darkroom: A Thriller: Kelly Durrell, #1
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Kelly's search for a missing friend draws her into a sinister underworld. Talented but unstable photographer Day Randall has been living rent-free in Kelly Durrell's Colorado condo for eight months. Day needs someone to keep an eye on her. Kelly needs someone to draw her out of her stable but not spectacular life. The arrangement works for both of them. Then Kelly comes home one day to find Day gone. There's no note, no phone call. Day's car is still parked out front, but her room is starkly, suspiciously spotless. No one seems to care. The police certainly aren't interested in a missing bipolar artist, but Kelly knows something is wrong. Day wouldn't just leave. Alone, Kelly traces Day's last steps through shadowy back rooms of Boulder nightclubs and to a remote mountain estate, where the wealthy protect themselves behind electric fences and armed guards. Along the way, she uncovers a sinister underworld lying just below the mountain snow, and a group of powerful people who will do anything to protect the secrets hidden in Day's enigmatic photographs. If she trusts the wrong person, Kelly herself will be the next to disappear. If you like suspenseful thrillers with unexpected plot twists, a strong sense of place, and characters that one reader describes as "so well-drawn you'd swear they were relatives," you'll love Mary Maddox's dark, compelling novel. A Night Owl Reviews Top Pick: "Sensational!...A haunting novel full of suspense and not a little terror." Hailed by Best Thrillers as "one of the year's best crime thrillers." Get your copy today and join Kelly on her dangerous quest for the truth.
- Hometown Boys: Kelly Durrell, #2
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Sometimes going home is the most dangerous thing you can do. Junkie burnout Troy Ingram murders an elderly couple outside small-town Morrison, Illinois. He's supposed to make it look like a robbery, but there's so much blood he panics and flees. When he's caught by police, he falls back on Plan B: tell everyone who will listen his motive was revenge on the Durrell family. See, twenty years ago, Kelly Durrell broke his heart and ruined his life. When Kelly returns to Morrison for the funerals, leaving her life in Boulder still packed in boxes and her relationship with detective Cash Peterson in its infancy, local gossip is quick to reach her. Troy's story doesn't make sense, but everyone in town seems happy to blame Kelly. She can't even turn to her family for consolation: she and her mother get in an argument every time they talk, her dad doesn't want to make waves, and her cousins are too busy fighting over their inheritance to care about anything else. But Troy's lawyer, Lizzy D'Angelo, is sure someone forced Troy to commit the murders, and that Kelly is the key to finding out who. With Lizzy's help, Kelly starts digging. Soon she discovers just how many secrets a small town can hide. Can Kelly shine a light in her hometown's dark corners without getting herself and her family killed? Hometown Boys is a smart, tension-filled thriller that will keep you riveted until the surprising, satisfying end.
Mary Maddox
Mary Maddox is a horror and dark fantasy novelist with what The Charleston Times-Courier calls a "Ray Bradbury-like gift for deft, deep-shadowed description." Born in Soldiers Summit, high in the mountains of Utah, Maddox graduated with honors in creative writing from Knox College, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She taught writing at Eastern Illinois University and has published stories in various journals, including Yellow Silk, Farmer's Market, The Scream Online, and Huffington Post. The Illinois Arts Council has honored her fiction with a Literary Award and an Artist's Grant.
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